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Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." Photo: Scott Kowalchyk ©2026 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

What we lose when "The Late Show" ends

Melanie McFarland

We'll see Stephen Colbert again, but his broadcast exit closes out David Letterman's absurdist TV legacy

Drake performs live on stage during day one of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 11, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

Drake wins, whether we like it or not

Alex Galbraith

Drake's overlong, petty trilogy is the perfect soundtrack to the “no one asked for this” era

A Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuer attends an exercise in Zaporizhzhia in August 2022 to prepare for a possible nuclear incident at the nearby nuclear power plant, which was seized by Russian forces in March 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

AI data center push fuels nuclear threat

Rachel Bronson

Countries around the world are racing to deploy nuclear technology — and potentially making themselves targets

President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

America's emerging anti-war consensus

Heather Digby Parton

Opposition to the president's war with Iran among Gen Z MAGA members could help create positive political change

In June 2025, Trump Mobile began pre-orders for their new "patriotic" gold phone. Almost a year later, customers are still waiting for their orders. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

The Trump phone is here. It's junk

Garrett Owen

Tech experts and reviewers say the long-delayed $500 phone has high costs, middling specs and murky origins

Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in New York City on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Election security is moving backward

Scott Shackelford - The Conversation

Despite GOP talk of election integrity, the midterms could be less secure than 2024

Ella Bruccoleri as Mary Bennet, Ruth Jones as Mrs Bennet, Richard E. Grant as Mr Bennet, Poppy Gilbert as Lizzie Bennet, Molly Wright as Kitty Bennet, Grace Hogg-Robinson as Lydia Bennet and Maddie Close as Jane Bennet in "The Other Bennet Sister." Credit: BBC/Bad Wolf/James Pardon (BBC/Bad Wolf/James Pardon)

Perks of being Jane Austen’s wallflower

Melanie McFarland

"The Other Bennet Sister" proves it’s the quiet ones we need to be watching

A health worker, wearing single-use protective clothing and a surgical cap, stands at a checkpoint where she oversees hand washing and temperature screening for all visitors and patients entering Kyeshero Hospital, as part of Ebola prevention measures in Goma on May 18, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP via Getty Images)

Ebola outbreak is a US failure

Troy Farah

America didn't cause these diseases. But Trump’s cuts to public health have put the world at risk

Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro speaks during Turning Point's annual AmericaFest conference in remembrance of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk (Photo by Olivier Touron / AFP)

Ben Shapiro's Rosa Parks revisionism

Sophia Tesfaye

The Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to the site of his proposed White House ballroom (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House ballroom symbolizes failure

Amanda Marcotte

The president’s only legacy will be greed and corruption

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (L) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Chitose Suzuki / The Dallas Morning News)

The Texas runoff stakes aren’t so high

Russell Payne

Both potential GOP candidates have torn each other down, and are now equally competitive in the general election

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former U.S President Donald Trump wait for the start of a campaign rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

MAGA voters have regrets

Tatishe Nteta, Adam Eichen, Jesse Rhodes - The Conversation

Donald Trump's supporters are starting to wonder if they made a mistake

Kara Young (left) and Mallori Johnson in "Is God Is." (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services LLC)

"Is God Is" makes revenge a religion

Coleman Spilde

Aleshea Harris' debut is a tale of gods and monsters, for a moment when they're hard to tell apart

Lentil skillet ingredients (Ashlie Stevens)

The smoky, cheesy lentils I keep making

Ashlie D. Stevens

And other cozy skillet dinners for expensive times

President Donald Trump (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

DOJ gifts Trump with slush fund

Heather Digby Parton

A new $1.776 billion fund could be used to compensate Jan. 6 rioters — and undermine the rule of law

CBS "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

You can't cancel satire

Sophia A. McClennen

While the late-night host's departure is a real loss, his brand of political commentary will survive

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Rick Friedman / Corbis News / Richard Bord / WireImage)

Deepak Chopra has an Epstein problem

Nicole Karlis

New Age guru exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein, including some he’d probably like to take back

Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter Terrorism, National Security Council Sebastian Gorka looks on during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Summit, held from April 23-25, gathers CEOs, government officials, financial leaders, and more for conversations on the state of the global economy. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Gorka's plan: Bash left, praise Trump

Hannah Allam - ProPublica

Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan villainizes the president’s political enemies

WASHINGTON,DC-JAN6: Supporters of President Trump storm the United States Capitol building. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/Getty Images)

Dems condemn Trump's IRS "slush fund"

Alex Galbraith

Democrats claim the DOJ has created a scheme to pay out Jan. 6 rioters and Trump allies in IRS lawsuit settlement

(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Harper Collins Publishing / Worthy Publishing)

It’s not just a crush. It’s limerence

Andi Zeisler

The clinical term for an addiction to longing is going viral — and, in the process, losing its meaning

Reality television star Spencer Pratt is rising in the Los Angeles mayoral election polls — and is reportedly filming a reality series around his campaign (Etienne Laurent / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

MAGA's return to reality TV is bad sign

Sophia Tesfaye

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt are chasing cameras to bypass scrutiny

The U.S. Capitol Building,  June 21, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

We can still restore democracy — maybe

Mike Lofgren

Joe Biden tried to "turn the page" on Trumpism, and it failed. We need deep structural change

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The real reason RFK Jr. hates SSRIs

Amanda Marcotte

The HHS Secretary's attacks on psychiatric medication follow a pattern of putting politics over public health

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Your rewards card may be spying on you

Jelinda Montes

A surveillance pricing ban in Maryland leaves out loyalty programs — costing customers more than they save

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